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J. GL'ONEILL. PROCESS OF SEPARATING MID GQLLEGTING GERMS mom 00m "Patentedsept. 15, 1896 Invention ,Zb; alliwhom. it may concern/.

E NE1LL, 'BOOKFOR "PATENT- SUGARYVREFINING COMPANY, L IMITED,Z Q'E;S AMEPLACE. l,

PRocEssjo FfstPA Ati e AND; COLLECTING; GERMS FROMORN. I

SPECIFICATION fhrmihgpartpf Letters Patent nogec'med-aetea September 15, race.

f. "hp liuetioh flldduly 7,1896. Beria1No.'598,340, 'tlicspecinienp.)

citizen of the United States, residing at Rock,- 3

'for'd, inthe county of Winnebagoand State rating and Collectin v i of Illinois, have invented -.certain' new and usefulIniprovements in Processes of =Se'pawhich the following-isa Specification. l

This invention relates to the treatment of corn in order to separate and collect the germs thereof; anditcon's'ists in grindlng the corn-after being steeped, passing it through a slop-machine to express the liquor, sub-.

mittiu'g the hulls'and' germs to the-actiomof a threshing-machine, separating the germs .from the hul'ls by passing, through a separater,- subjecting the germs to the "action :ofga li'e-vcjto wash the starch? particles there-.

' from, subjectingthe-genns to theactionof a fcomposcfld of an endless carrier-6 and rollers corn being'fed' to the mill'throngh 5331c water,-and finally passing, Slthroug'h a drier." 1

accompanying drawing I have shown mechanism for carrying- Upon the top floor '1 is located a grinding, mill 2,0f any suitable constru ction, thesteeped; thejspout 3 and water for grinding through the'pipe i';

Upon the floor 5 is located 'a' slop-machine The ground corn is conveyed to'the carriers of'the slop-machine bythe' pipe 8. ,-At the delivery end of thefslop-niachine is 10- h ated a'thres'hing'lmachine composed of a'cyl- 'i'nder' 9,

provided with radially-extending teethwhich rotate between the teeth of a concave 10; Th elower portion of the thresh-' in g machine has a discharge-opening 11,which just below this fi0or.-' v I 1 The floor 13 supports a, separator composed communicateswith a conveyer 12, located of a body portion 14, 'inthe bottom of which is.sup'ported an agitator 15. Aspout 16,

a .fiOIillllllIliC&hiflg"-\Vi1gl1 the conveyer 12,ex- *tends some distance within the separator;

and a pipe 17' connects with the spout and with atrough1l8, located beneath the rollers 7 of the slop-machine,-.Whi c11 conveys the ILLINOIS; AssIeNo o THE ROCKFORD liquor extracted from theground corn to the" separator;

. One end. of the separator has adischarge;

' 19, which, empties into a trough 20, from which a pipe 21 extends-through the floor.- An outlet 22 is. formed in thebottom of-me a separator. 'The floor 23 supports a' water supply .25 and conveyer 26.

'.'-Thef floor 27;supports'apress" 28, ofi any suitable construction, having a'conveyer 29 at either side'connecting with a -pip e'30.

the-rotating'variety, having a conveyer33' ma-7e24, having a J v 9 The pipe 21 from the separator coinnllmi- ,cates1with1 1 csieve2et. I

, 7' 5 The bottomvfloorfil supports afdrier$2 of i located at its discharge end. The pipe-3O extending; f'rdm the press communicates with" the iipperend of i i .fl he' cornisground in water inthev mill and isdischarged upon'the conveyer'f'the slopthe drier. 1

machine fwhichflp'asses through the rolls,

' thereby squeezing out-the starch liquor, which discharged into the trough 13. The hullsandffgerms are discharged into. the threshing-machine, wherethey are broken up and the germs'separated'from'the hulls anddis charged into the conveyer and carried'to the sep'a'ratorahd discharged therein and mixed with the starch liquor coming froni'the slopnnachine. The. separator, being filled with the hulls, germs, and starch'liquor, is -agitated by the agitator 15,.which will cause the -germs, being lighter than the. hulls, to rise tort-he top o'f'thestarch liquor and overflow with the starch-liquor onto the sieve','over '.Whicl1 they pass and are washed bya stream of Water passingthrough. the pipe 25.' This washing process takes out-all the starch particles,'leaving the germs-clean, whichare dis charged intothe. conveyer located at the dischargeend of the sieve, 1 This conveyer car riesthe germs to the press, where the water is expelled, the germspassing into the hopper 29 and into the. drier, where they are conveyer located at the discharge end of the drier, which conveys them-to the proper place where the oil is extracted by any of the known methods. I

It is evident that the construction of the 'sufliciently dried and discharged into the IOC 

